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Hill Country Property, by Jim Sanderson
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Fiction. Set between Austin and San Antonio, HILL COUNTRY PROPERTY traces the development of Roger Jackson from promising law student to private detective spying on cheating spouses. Of course, his own wife and in-laws are involved.
Hill Country Property, by Jim Sanderson- Amazon Sales Rank: #3031037 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .70" w x 5.90" l, 1.02 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 284 pages
About the Author Jim Sanderson has published three collections of short stories: Semi-Private Rooms (Pig Iron Press, 1994); Faded Love (Ink Brush Press, 2010), and Trashy Behavior (Lamar University Press, 2013). He has published seven novels: El Camino del Rio (University of New Mexico Press, 1998), Safe Delivery (University of New Mexico Press, 2000); La Mordida (University of New Mexico Press, 2002); Nevin's History: A Novel of Texas (Texas Tech University Press, 2004); Dolph's Team (Ink Brush Press, 2011); Nothing Left to Lose (TCU Press, 2014). And he has published an essay collection: A West Texas Soapbox (1998). He is chair of the English and Modern Language Department at Lamar University.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. a sociological study of a very particular time and place — Austin and the Texas Hill Country in the 1980s By Texasbooklover FictionSanderson, JimHill Country Property: A NovelLivingston Press978-1-60489-152-2, paperback, 284 pgs., $18.95 (also available in hardcover)September 10, 2015According to Jim Sanderson, chair of the English and Modern Language Department at Lamar University, Hill Country Property began as a collection of unrelated short stories thirty years ago. After many near misses, it’s been reworked as a novel. Not having read those stories thirty years ago, I can’t compare them against the finished product but suspect that the amount of reworking is responsible for the meandering quality of the novel. Hill Country Property is an average novel with the potential to be better.Hill Country Property is a sociological study of a very particular time and place — Austin and the Texas Hill Country in the 1980s. Roger Jackson is a middle-aged former lawyer and student radical whose current job as a private investigator involves stalking and photographing wayward spouses for a divorce attorney. He is unwillingly separated from his wife, Victoria. His father-in-law, Henry, is dying and wants to see his estranged wife, Rebecca, who abandoned the family decades ago, before he dies. Roger embarks on a quixotic quest to find Rebecca for Henry in the hope that this will somehow save his own marriage.Hill Country Property begins promisingly. “It is 1985. I am in my new pickup truck watching Kay Menger’s marriage unravel. With nothing to do but watch, I remember that I had tried to strengthen my marriage by having an affair with a smelly woman who trimmed her toenails by moonlight.” Who wouldn’t want to find out more about that? There’s plenty of wry humor in the Hill Country. “Rebecca knew about the ploys of high school football players and hard-up veterans but was unprepared for a cowboy [Henry] with a stallion.” And this: “According to Buck [Roger’s boss], the earth mothers and health freaks of the sixties turned into health fascists.” Buck is a smoker.The characters of Hill Country Property are complex and well developed, with realistically scrambled motivations, though the women remain mysterious to the end. The backstories provided the older generations of these families are fascinating as a history of the development of Texas. Roger is a social commentator. “My [Roger’s] thought for the day: transcendence, idealism, doing the right thing, and solutions all belong back in the sixties. But now we are in the existential, give-a-s**t, less innocent, wiser, conservative, Christian intoxicated eighties.” Sanderson has a lot to say about the unintended consequences of what he terms “the age of earned sex.” “At eighteen, with active but untested hormones, abstinence seemed far worse than marriage, but at twenty-five with the rest of her life determined because of the search for proper sex, Rebecca was reconsidering abstinence.”Unfortunately, Hill Country Property suffers from poor copyediting and proofing. The misplaced and missing punctuation, disordered word order, and other ills are ubiquitous and distracting. Roger’s first-person narrative begins well and proceeds steadily, holding your attention until somewhere around two-thirds of the way through and then loses focus and momentum. I’d like to see the short stories, the original version of Hill Country Property. I suspect they might’ve been the form for this material.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A lyrical prequel to a swampy thriller By Clifford Hudder In Jim Sanderson’s powerful and lyrically evocative new novel “Hill Country Property,” Roger Jackson searches three states to find his estranged mother-in-law, Rebecca, only to be told that she has no intention of returning to the bedside of the dying husband she deserted one afternoon some 30 years before. “‘No pleasure but meanness,’ you know,” says Rebecca — which rings a bell with Roger. “I recognized the quote,” he says, “knew it was from something I had read but wasn’t sure what.” Sanderson no doubt recognizes that his readership is sharper than his narrator and will identify the words of “The Misfit,” the dark antagonist of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Although Rebecca, having deserted her husband to enjoy herself in the “new age; sex, movies and college” of the ’60s, self-describes as “The Villain,” “Misfit” probably suits her better.Indeed, such a label places her right in line with most of the characters in “Hill Country Property,” and right up Sanderson’s alley.“Hill Country Property” is the eighth novel — in addition to two story collections — from the prolific fiction writer and professor of English at Lamar University. Readers will recognize Roger Jackson as the private detective from last year’s “Nothing to Lose,” a P.I. operating in, of all places, 21st-century Beaumont. In that book we find Roger as the kind of sleuth that Denny’s management calls to shadow employees who dip from the till. Blood makes him “want to hurl.” He’s got education and a law degree behind him, but they are way behind him, as is his divorce and most of his hopes for having a healthy relationship with a woman he can stand. A darkly humorous, swamp-infused murder mystery, “Nothing to Lose” sets Roger amidst a “fraternity of losers, hard luckers and social outcasts,” with a few indications dropped now and then of some other life that existed “before I started (screwing) up.”That other life is the subject of the very different “Hill Country Property.”Anchored in the mid 1980’s, but encompassing American cultural developments going back before World War II, the novel serves as Roger’s prequel/backstory, but is much more, standing on its own as a classic Texas family saga. Struggling as he sees his marriage to his wife Victoria disintegrating, in this volume Roger digs into stories and remembrances — not to mention Thom McAnn shoe-boxes stuffed with letters and sealed with ancient rubber bands — to uncover the secret history of his extended relations-in-law. Part of the novel’s lyrical tone and appeal comes from its three part, time-leaping structure: much of the detective story in this case concerns how the saga is brought to light and becomes told.In addition, unlike “Nothing to Lose,” the dramatic conflicts here are closer to home than narcotics, homicide, or police procedure — and perhaps more satisfying and discomforting for that reason. The characters haven’t gotten crosswise with the law, but with their own experiences and decisions. A young couple faces the specter of abortion. A wife wrestles over whether her marriage has been a mistake. The idealism of the ’60s runs headlong into the practical obstacles of keeping a job and raising a family.Although masterful with character, this novel is particularly about place — and not just the Hill Country but also “the spaghetti-like maze of San Antonio,” Austin with its “bizarre but interesting people ... the kind you like to watch but not the kind you would want your kids to know,” Houston and more. The geographical stops underscore the rich diversity of Sanderson’s Texas: readers encounter a state that refuses reduction to iconic cowboy postage stamp representation. With “Go Set a Watchman” still in the top 10, it’s difficult to advise whether one should start with the lyrical “Hill Country Property” (the prequel written first) or “Nothing to Lose” (the sequel published first) or ... but, never mind. The novels stand on their own, and if you get a bit of loveable, noble loser Roger Jackson and his story-spinning voice in one volume, you’ll want to go and get more of him in the other. Review appeared first in San Antonio Express-News
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